i don't think it is. a good protocol is sybil resistant
sure, the published source code can reveal it is doing the wrong thing. but you don't know what a relay is actually running, who is running it, who pwned it, or who captures bytes on the wire
ynniv
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2026-07-21 16:19:22 UTC
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